Formerly the orchestra Les Maravillas du Mali

Mali

Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...

, the musical group took on the name Badema National in 1976. From the lush savannah in the south to the all-encompassing desert of the north, the Badema National's repertoire spans the diversity of Malian music. The Badema's purpose is the revitalization of Malian musical heritage by the training, the supervision, and the production of albums meant for up and coming musicians of most need.

Tours

• Foire Internationale of Dakar, SENEGAL
• Festival Panafricain de la Jeunesse of Tripoli, Libya
• Artistic Tour in Côte d’Ivoire
• 10th Festival of Guinea (Conakry)

Instruments

The Badema employs traditional Malian instruments within the modern context. Even though its base lies with traditional rock instruments such as keyboards, guitars, and drums, the following instruments are employed by the Badema:

• Djembé
  Djembe
  A djembe also known as jembe, jenbe, djbobimbe, jymbe, yembe, or jimbay, or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin-covered drum meant played with bare hands....
  
  
• Kamalen N’Goni
• Tamani (Talking drum)
• Soku
  Soku
  A soku is a traditional West African instrument used in a type of music called Wassoulou which originated in the Wasulu region of southwest Mali. It is a traditional fiddle, sometimes replaced by modernized versions of the instrument. Known as the n'diaraka or njarka in Songhai, it is composed of...
  
   (One-stringed violin)
• Balafon
  Balafon
  The balafon is a resonated frame, wooden keyed percussion idiophone of West Africa; part of the idiophone family of tuned percussion instruments that includes the xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, and the vibraphone...